File:Royal Christmas boxes and new years gifts.1815 &16. (BM 1859,0316.103).jpg
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[edit]Royal Christmas boxes and new years gifts.1815 &16. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
Print made by: George Cruikshank
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Title |
Royal Christmas boxes and new years gifts.1815 &16. |
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Description |
English: Plate to the 'Scourge' [not folded, showing that it was issued separately], xi, frontispiece. The central and principal design is isolated from four minor designs by being on a land rising from a surrounding plain. On this plateau is a pool, in which is the island of St. Helena, in the form of a giant whose updrawn knees, as cliffs, enclose Jamestown Bay; the apex is in the form of a grinning face on which Napoleon, a colossus (see No. 12611, &c.), sits in profile to the right, holding his chin meditatively, his legs crossed. He faces the Tsar who stands on the edge of the pool, displaying a pile of gifts destined for St. Helena. These are a 'Map of France' and five pictures: 'View of the Good City of Paris'; 'View of the Pall[ace] of St. Cloud'; 'a Representation of the Destruction of Malmasion' [sic]; 'Burning of Moskow' [see No. 12049]; 'Battle of Waterloo' [see No. 12557, &c.]. They lean against a jar of 'Preserved Snow Balls', and are surmounted by a notice-board inscribed 'Pictures &c &c to Ornament the House that Jack built—presentd by Al[exander]'. Alexander declaims blandly, with extended arms; his words are linked also with the Regent:
Etching and aquatint |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Ackermann | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1816 date QS:P571,+1816-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1859,0316.103 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949) For the contrast between the warlike (but insulting) gifts of the Tsar, and those symbolizing dissipation given by the Regent, cf. No. 12296. For McMahon and the women cf. No. 11730. The second design satirizes the family quarrel over the marriage of the Duke of Cumberland to his first cousin, and the friendly letter from the Queen to her brother, the Grand-Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, on the news, promising that the bride should be a welcome guest. When the Queen soon afterwards absolutely refused to receive the new Duchess, this letter, after a preliminary threat (on 4 Sept.) was published (in part) in the 'Morning Chronicle'. It ended: 'I have sent by the messenger six pounds of tea and two cheeses; eat the latter to my health; and in drinking the tea, remember a sister whose attachment to you will not cease but with death.' 'Examiner' (citing 'Morning Chronicle'), 8 Oct. 1815. See Nos. 12591, 12996. For Ferdinand VII and the petticoat see No. 12508, &c. In his exile 'according to the published eulogies of one of his chaplains [he] was occupied in embroidering petticoats for the Virgin Mary'. 'Examiner', 7 Jan. 1816. For Princess Charlotte's rejection of the Crown Prince of the Netherlands see No. 12280, &c.; any proposed Prince Consort was subject to attacks as a would-be pensioner of John Bull, while the Princess's popularity and the Regent's wish for the marriage contributed to the satisfaction at the rupture. The duc d'Angoulême married his cousin in 1799; there was no prospect of an heir to the Crown till after the marriage in 1816 of his brother, the duc de Berry. Reid, No. 560. Cohn, No. 732. Broadley, ii. 9 f. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1859-0316-103 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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